Another “price tag” attack by West Bank settlers was reported today in the Palestinian village of As-Sawiya, where settlers chopped down at least 50 trees in an olive grove and spray painted graffiti on the site.
It was the second vandalism price tag attack this week already, with a Sunday incident in which vandals hit the Shuafat Refugee Camp and damaged cars, slashing their tires and spray painting “death to the enemy” on them.
West Bank settler groups regularly launch such attacks against Christian and Muslim owned targets to “protest” Israeli government policy they see as not sufficiently pro-settler. The timing in this case is odd as it comes just a day after the announcement of major new settlement expansions, and there doesn’t seem to be any specific reason for them to be riled up.
Though the owner of the olive grove brought the attack to the attention of Israeli security forces in the area, arrests are extremely rare in such attacks and prosecutions are virtually unheard of. Though Israeli officials have promised to take the matters more seriously after several “price tag” attacks also hit inside Israel itself, there is no indication that this is actually the case.
Why is the Press constantly calling Israeli SETTLERS, when their real name is LAND ROBBERS or LAND THIEVES !
The Price probably has to do with Obamas Election, I suspect that it wouldnt have happenned if Romney won!
These Israeli goons bring to mind the Nazi youth bullying Jewish store owners in Berlin in the 1930s. As opposed to a Kristalnach, in Palestine there are several happening all the time. What is unfortunate is that the people who suffered under the Nazis don't say a thing about all of this abuse.
What is the real difference between Zionism and Nazism? both are self serving terrorist ideologies that choose terror, murder, and destruction over a moral compass, and human rights.